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Partial Contents
I. GENERAL SURVEY - P. E. H. Jounlain: The Suture
of Mathematics.
II. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL - Herbert Wcsl
ren TurnhuH: The Great Mathematicians; James K.
Newman: The Rhinti Papyrus; Plutarch: Archimedes;
It fiii! Descartes: Geometry; plus selcelimis hy Alfred
North Whitehead, Krir Temple ltt'11, and 9 others.
III. ARITHMETIC, NUMBERS AND THE ART OF
COUNTING-Arrhimede: Poppy Seeds and The Uni
verse; W. V. Koim Hall: Calculating Prodigies; Sir
ltaac Newton: The Binomial Theorem; plus 6 others.
IV. MATHEMATICS OF SPACE AND MOTION - Wil
liam Kingdom Clifford: The Science a Space, The
Space Theory of Matter; Leoiihanl Kuler: The Seven
Bridges of Konigsberg; A famous Problem. Morris
Kline: Projective Geometry; plus selection hy 7 others.
V. MATHEMATICS AND THE PHYSICAL WORLD -Galileo:
Mathematics of Motion; H. G. J. Moseley:
Atomic Numbers; V.. V. Hoys: The Soap Babble; Grcgor
Mendel: Mathematics of Heredity; PLUS IK others.
VI. MATHEMATICS AND THI SOCIAL SCIENCES -Thomus
Koherl Mullhus: Mathematics of Wealth;
Lewis fry Kit h.irKn : Statistics of Deadly Quarrels;
Murwin: On the Theory of Games; 7 others.
VII. THE LAWS OF CHANCE Pierre Simon De Ln
I'luee: Concerning Probability ; Charles Sunders I'eirce:
The Red and The Black; 5 others.
VIII. STATISTICS AND THE DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS
J uruli Itcrnoulli: The Law of Large Numbers; L. C.
Tinpetl: Sampling and Standard Error; PLUS selections
hy G. II. Sltaw, John Gruunl, Hiilley, Fisher.
tX. THE SUPREME ART OF ABSTRACTION! GROUP
THEORY t .assius J, Keyacr: The Group Concept ; Sir
Arthur S. Kddingtun: 77ie Theory of Groups.
X. THI MATHEMATICS OF INFINITY-Kussell: Mathe
matics and the Metaphysicians; Halm: Infinity.
XI. MATHEMATICAL TRUTH AND THE STRUCTURE OF
MATHEMATICS -Carl G. Hempel: On the Nature of
Mathematical Truth; Huymmid L. Wilder: The Axi
omatic Method ; plus selection hy 5 others.
XII. THE MATHEMATICAL WAY OF THINKING -Onirics
Sunders I'eirce; The Essence of Mathematics;
Kmsl Much: The Economy of Science; plus 3 others.
XIII. MATHEMATICS AND LOQIC-Ceorge Untile: The
Mathematical Analysis of Logic; Kntcst Nugcl: Sym
bolic Notation; 3 others.
XIV. THE UNREASONABLENESS OF MATHEMATICS -
Kasner und Newman: Paradox Lost and Paradox
Hegained; Hans llnhn: The Crisis in Intuition.
XV. BECOMING ONE'S OWN MATHEMATICIAN - C.
l'olyn: How to Solve It, (excerpt).
XVI. THE VOCABULARY OF MATHEMATICS Edward
K aimer and James K. Newman: New Names for Old.
XVII. MATHEMATICS AS AN ART John W. N. Sulli
van : Mathematics as an Art.
XVIII. THI MATHEMATICIAN EXPLAINS HIMSELF
G. II. Hardy: A Mathematician's Apology; Henri I'o in
rare: Mathematical Creation; How Ideas Are Born;
John Von Neumann: The. Mathematician,
XIX. VARIOUS CLEVER MACHINES -Von Neumann:
Theory of Automata; A. M. Turing: Can a Machine
Think? Shannon: A Chess-Playing Machine.
XX. THE UNGENTLE USES OF MATHEMATICS - P. W.
Lanchrstcr: Mathematics in Warfare; Morse and Kim-
Imll; Jlvw to Hunt a Submarine.
XXI. A MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF ART - C. ).
liirMiolT: 77ie Mathematics of Aesthetics.
XXII. MATHEMATICS AND MORALITY - C. U. Dirk
holT: A Mathematical Approach to Ethics.
XXIII. MATHEMATICS IN LITERATURE - Swift: Cy
cloid Pudding; Huiley: Young Archimedes; plus se-'
lections hy KuskcII Maloney, 2 others.
XXIV. MATHEMATICS AND MUSIC - Sir James Jeans:
The Mathematics of Music.
XXV. MATHEMATICS AS A CULTURE CLUI - Oswald
S pen pier: The Meaning of Numbers; Leslie A. While:
An Anthropological footnote.
XXVI. MATHEMATICAL DIVERSIONS, PUZZLES, AND
FANCIES with selections hy: Stephen Learock, Lewis
Carroll, W. W. House Hall, 7 others.
PLUS B9 interpretive essays and 1,000 illustrations.